Thought I would post my setup. I have a running thread at AVSFORUM showing off my gear as I got it, so I am just going to copy and paste a bunch from that thread to make my life simpler lol..

This upcoming weekend my fiancée and I are moving from a 1 bedroom 1 bath 730 sq. ft. apartment into a 2 bedroom 1 ½ bath townhome apartment. The layout is much friendlier for my Home Theater aspirations, both for the Living/Family Room as well as the Master and Guest Bedroom. While not nearly as awe inspiring as many of your dedicated theater rooms, its not to shabby for what I can do. Below are the beginnings of what will be my awesome new setups. I figured I would chronicle the journey both for myself and also anyone else interested.

Living/Family Room:

As of right now I am going to stick with 5.1 downstairs as I do not have the necessary space to do 7.1 properly and honestly don’t care at this point . We are going to paint the wall the TV is on a dark brown color and all the other walls in that room a light blue. I will be mounting the Surrounds about 24-32” above ear height when sitting down using AM40 wall brackets. The Center speaker will be mounted above the TV using a speaker shelf I purchased off Amazon.

The Guest Bedroom is going to be just a small 2.0 setup that will eventually become a 2.1 setup. This will be used mainly to listen to music while I work on the computer, and occasionally as a secondary Home Theater if my brother comes over with his Xbox and we want to connect them both up. As such I am not planning on spending too much more on this setup than I need.

"You were on my Ignore List, but you are too damn entertaining, like a circus monkey, so I took you off" - H9"We shouldn't laugh at people like you, we should pray for them. You have my prayers for a speedy rehabilitation you sad, silly little man" - Jstas

Updated pictures to show the new speakers and setup. I am now running Polk LSi 15 fronts modded with a db840 sub, a LSiC center channel and 2 Infinity Primus 162's as surrounds

"You were on my Ignore List, but you are too damn entertaining, like a circus monkey, so I took you off" - H9"We shouldn't laugh at people like you, we should pray for them. You have my prayers for a speedy rehabilitation you sad, silly little man" - Jstas

This is what the layout may eventually look like. As of right now the Futon has not been purchased:

**edited 5/3/11**

Got a new desk and entertainment center for the HK 3490. Moved the Monitor 60's to the office since they were replaced by LSi 15's. The Infinity Primus's from the office are now my surrounds instead of the Monitor 40's.

**edited 6/25/11**

I got the acoustic panels setup. Their final resting place will be in the dedicated HT when we finally get a house. Until then with no storage space, they look quite good in the office..

Before:

After:

"You were on my Ignore List, but you are too damn entertaining, like a circus monkey, so I took you off" - H9"We shouldn't laugh at people like you, we should pray for them. You have my prayers for a speedy rehabilitation you sad, silly little man" - Jstas

And Finally a bunch of pics of my Carver AV-705x. I got it used off CL for 250. A couple sets of the RCA's are bent, but it worked with no issues at all. I now have noticed one of the THX knobs is busted, but it doesnt mess with how it sounds so I am ok with that

Here are the pictures showing the bent terminals:

"You were on my Ignore List, but you are too damn entertaining, like a circus monkey, so I took you off" - H9"We shouldn't laugh at people like you, we should pray for them. You have my prayers for a speedy rehabilitation you sad, silly little man" - Jstas

Then I found some good passive subs (ChaseHomeTheater 18's) that I like but not quite sure if I want to run a Pro Audio amp to them. Debating going with 2 TFM-25's bridged (one per sub). Would love to hear thoughts on that.....

"You were on my Ignore List, but you are too damn entertaining, like a circus monkey, so I took you off" - H9"We shouldn't laugh at people like you, we should pray for them. You have my prayers for a speedy rehabilitation you sad, silly little man" - Jstas

treitz3 wrote:I see that you still haven't convinced the other half to accept the toe in yet. DOH!

LOL...I gave up honestly. I am quite happy with how good it sounds as it is. While there are improvements to be made I can wait till I have a more dedicated space in which I can dictate layout more. Thats why the acoustic treatments are not in the main setup but in the office.

Plus I am being nice now so I can get that Sunfire 5 channel I want hopefully soon and then a set of subs to match.....

"You were on my Ignore List, but you are too damn entertaining, like a circus monkey, so I took you off" - H9"We shouldn't laugh at people like you, we should pray for them. You have my prayers for a speedy rehabilitation you sad, silly little man" - Jstas